Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone RoadAccording to a holding answer from Moley on 26 February 2010:

"The Department for Transport does not hold information on when and where railway track has been added to or taken away from the national network".With an updated version of his invaluable Atlas about to be published, surely Stuart Baker could help out his minister?

PAC chairman Edward Leigh said: “The taxpayer has lost up to £410m as a result of the Department for Transport’s inadequate management of the risks arising from the Metronet contracts for upgrading the infrastructure of the underground.

Mr Leigh called the DfT’s assumptions about management of the contract “flawed from the outset” and “naïve”, while the belief that lenders would exert strong influence on Metronet’s governance and financial health was undermined because the DfT shouldered 95% of their risks.